Tag: Shaun Kenney
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End the Subminimum Wage for Disabled Virginians
Virginia is top ranked as a business-friendly state. How we treat employees with disabilities in the workplace matters. by Shaun Kenney What are the hallmarks of a business-friendly environment? Competitive wages, opportunities to build wealth, support for entrepreneurial endeavors, freedom to create and innovate, dignity of work, and economic independence and sustainability – to name…
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Restoring Process Over Politics
by Shaun Kenney Over the last eight years, Virginia Democrats have been swift to impose their will in violation of political process — a fact that continues to frustrate Virginia Republicans on fronts as wide as economic shutdowns, mask mandates, the tearing down of history and war memorials, the imposition of Critical Race Theory in…
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Meritocracy Against the Wokes
Progressive Democrats are awfully riled up about the term “meritocracy” in Youngkin’s EO 1 — and they ought to be. by Shaun Kenney Poor Democrats — they haven’t been this ruffled about Republicans taking over Richmond since 1865. Truly, it’s hard to feel much sympathy for the Virginia Democrats, whose lust for power and the…
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Youngkin’s Ministry of All Talents
by Shaun Kenney The Daily Caller has an article on how Republican governor-elect Glenn Youngkin’s new selection for Secretary of Education was the founder and CEO of Data Quality Campaign (DQC) — an organization which collected data on public schoolchildren, including their class schedules, grades, and other data in order to provide metrics to enhance…
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Burning Flags OK, Burning Smut Bad
Just because “33 Snowfish” gets printed doesn’t make it literature… but we can know that only if we contrast smut against actual literature. by Shaun Kenney “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.” “Thus, where men burn books, in the end they will also burn men.” — Heinrich Heine,…
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Earning the Right to Govern
by Shaun Kenney Now that a solid week has passed between Virginia and the November elections, the sobering up can begin in earnest. With a Republican sweep that gave Youngkin 50.59% of the vote, Sears 50.72%, and Miyares 50.36%, it is clear that rhetoric caged in the spirit of a Roman triumph is a touch…
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Miyares Seeks to Override Progressive Prosecutors
by Shaun Kenney Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares announced Thursday that he’s looking to pass legislation that will override “social justice” commonwealth’s attorneys who refuse to prosecute entire categories of crime. Miyares said his plan has the support of Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin. Fox News reports: Under current law, the AG’s office can prosecute a case on…
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Dying for a Photo Op
This post has been excerpted from a longer column published in The Republican Standard. — JAB by Shaun Kenney Two things have always bothered me about Charlottesville 2017. First, that the political Left never mentions that three people died that day. Yes, we all know the name of Heather Heyer. But you never see the…
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McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
by Shaun Kenney Remember the old adage — the goal isn’t to win the debate, but to make sure you don’t lose the debate. Former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe was pressed on graphic textbooks — and I mean graphic — of a sexual nature being included in government school libraries, and McAuliffe exploded with rage.…
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Forced Unionism Is Back on the Menu
by Shaun Kenney First things first. Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin’s internal polling has him showing a slight lead against Democratic former governor Terry McAuliffe 48-46. What Afghanistan giveth Texas shall taketh away… Yet with the 2022 Generic Ballot showing the environment at D+0.3 at present? Those numbers can only improve Republican hopes moving forward, as…
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Why Is Northam Doling Out Public Cash at Partisan Events?
by Shaun Kenney Michael Martz with the Richmond Times-Dispatch writes on Governor Ralph Northam’s hamfisted attempt to use the public trust for partisan gain with a $350 million rescue package paid for by John and Jane Q. Taxpayer. The proposed package also includes the help requested by Virginia Tourism President Rita McClenny, who appeared before…
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Maybe VMI Needs to Close on Our Terms
A modest proposal by Shaun Kenney The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) is a hallowed institution to many. VMI men have a certain command presence that is rooted in realism yet rarely if ever accepts impossible as a status quo. The things that make VMI such an institution are the intangibles. VMI’s storied Honor Code, her…
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Virginia Dems Have More Problems Than They’re Letting On
by Shaun Kenney Let’s start first and foremost with the obscene amount of cash that Clean Virginia — the Michael Bills front group that has donated to many Democratic and even a few Republican candidates — is pouring onto the campaigns of Delegate Jennifer Carroll-Foy, D-Prince William, for Governor and Delegate Jay Jones (D-Norfolk) for…
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A Tale of Three Virginias
by Shaun Kenney For those who have taken the opportunity to get to know the Old Dominion, one would be well served to drive the Colonial Parkway. Built by the Rockefeller family in the 1930s, the road is designed in such a way that you could travel the length from Jamestown through Williamsburg and to…